Divulgence ✹ Septicgab

Five

"What.. what do you mean?" Rae confused us even more. "You met her.. before?" Rae nodded as Seán asked the questions.

"I did," she said. "Before I knew you two were both there, I found this small child.. A little girl, no older than two or three. She was tall, long brown hair... a small nose, and heterochromatic eyes.... one blue... the other brown.." Seán and I exchanged a look. "I looked after her for a bit, but when I went to sleep one evening, I woke up to find she had left. I tried to find her, but I hadn't seen anyone..... until I heard gunfire.. and heard a woman screaming."

"That had to have been Christine.." Seán said.

"Amelia was still nowhere to be found, but the people I did see... were you guys. I didn't engage.... cause I was terrified, first of all... and with all of the gunfire amongst the group, I felt safer on my own.." Rae pushed a button on her hospital bed remote to sit up. "There wasn't much more I could do... other than look for someone once I became injured.." She held her hair up, revealing the scar on her back that stretched from her left shoulder to her right hip. "I found Sykkuno pretty quickly after... and he told me there was this little girl he heard crying.. He said he tried to talk to her, but she ran from him.."

"She was scared," I sighed.

"Sykkuno helped me get all patched up before we were separated again about two years after... I thought I saw a little girl when he and I were going into a battle.... he managed to win, but I died shortly after catching up to the child... She told me her name was Amelia... But she didn't know why she was there. She told me she was born there, left to fend for herself.."

"As what? Some kind of experiment?" Evelien was rightly pissed. "Is that all this is? A science experiment?"

"I don't know.... but what I do remember about my death...." Rae hesitated. "Seán... what was the appearance of the first hunter you killed?"

"Blackish hair..." I said, feeling worried and confused.

"Covering his face?" My fiancée's eyes widened as she heard the words come from Rae's mouth, already knowing about the hunter I had killed. "I was killed by someone like that... And he took Amelia as I bled out... He must've thought I was hurting her or something....."

"Oh shit...." I held my hands on top of my head. "He.... he tried to talk when I killed him. What if he knew what was going on? What if he knew who Amelia is? What do I do now? How am I supposed to live with knowing I could've known about my daughter.... our bloodline... a long time before I d-"

"Seán..." Rae cut me off. "He's at the hospital.. He said his name.... he goes by Corpse.." She sighed when she saw my blank expression. "He didn't die. You killed his weird duplicate..."

Suddenly, everything, weirdly enough, started to make sense. From the moment I woke in Yharnam, I met with Evelien, and together we met up with Ethan and Mark... They all showed emotion.. remorse, empathy, and passion in our group.. Felix, Marzia, and Christine, however... they showed nothing but rage and terror. The majority of the time, after everyone had woken up again in that hell hole, if we saw someone, there was a better chance that it wasn't really a human hunter. Amy had a duplicate, but her duplicate died to a pig.. The real Amy was already deceased from the world and woke on Earth.

"This... This still doesn't explain my pregnancy... how we have a child who is as old as she is.... and why all of this happened in the first place," Evelien spouted off.

"What if... Amelia isn't really.." I started to speak, but my heart broke to the sound of my own words leaving my lips. The words had broken the heart of my fiancée as well. "They all seemed.."

"So real," she finished my sentence. "I know.."